Senior Director, Learning & Development

Role Summary

The Senior Director of Learning and Development will be responsible for leading the design, execution, and management of a comprehensive learning strategy aligned with the company’s scientific and business objectives. The ideal candidate will create training infrastructure from scratch, including launch excellence frameworks and technical training for both medical and commercial teams. This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing.

Location:

Bedford, MA (field-based) with move to Waltham, MA by end of 2026.

• Build a comprehensive training strategy aligned with business objectives to enhance knowledge and skills on SMA and zorevunersen across U.S. and global markets.
• Lead and oversee medical and commercial training initiatives.
• Lead development initiatives, i.e., training, coaching, learning initiatives.
• Lead creation and standardization of Launch Excellence frameworks from early planning through post-launch sustainment.
• Design and train on learning solutions grounded in adult learning theory to maximize knowledge retention and application.
• Oversee development and facilitation of dynamic workshops on disease states, products, market landscapes, and contextual selling skills for diverse audiences.
• Train and coach leaders for key conversations that drive team performance, instilling high confidence in the performance of team members, and ensuring employees receive balanced and actionable feedback.
• Partner with executive leaders to provide strategic guidance aligning people programs to business outcomes and while ensuring high employee engagement.
• Lead, evaluate and monitor training programs to ensure training objectives are being met.
• Ensure the appropriate utilization of resources by overseeing the identification and selection of vendors as well as existing relationships and projects relating to training.
• Design and implement practices ensuring continuous improvement of a high-performance culture.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science or related field. A master’s degree (MBA) is strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of experience working in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry with 8+ years of experience in sales/commercial training.
• Ability to lead all medical affairs and commercial trainings.
• Experience leading development initiatives (i.e., training programs, feedback and evaluation, collaboration, LMS systems, career development, content creation, digital training assignments, performance consulting, learning analytics and facilitation and coaching).
• Firm understanding and applicability of the adult learning theory framework and experience with each of the adult learning modules (visual and spatial, auditory, linguistics, andragogical and experiential learning).
• Experience using different learning methodologies.
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to drive toward consensus.
• Exceptional, persuasive, written, and verbal communication skills. Willingness to present the facts and put forth hypotheses in the face of differing opinions.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to establish logical flow and story. Experience presenting to senior management.
• Ability to adjust to changing needs within the organization and flexibility to change priorities as needed.
• Ability to self-direct projects and work independently.
• Ability to work cross functionally with key internal stakeholders including, but not limited to Sales, Market Access, Marketing and Human Resources.
• Demonstrated values-based skills and strong work ethic.
• Pharmaceutical launch experience with an emphasis on building infrastructure and processes from scratch.

• Travel: approximately 25%-30% travel.